The US-Canada border is the longest and straightest of its kinds in the world. Sounds pretty boring, right? Wrong! Check out this video to learn about the odd peculiarities (and the crookedness) about the line that divides Americans and Canadians.

Perhaps the weirdest part of the border is the Northwest Angle, which consists of about 200 Americans and about a zillion fish. Everyone once in a while, they (the people, not the fish) want to secede and enter a union with Canada. Apparently, the desire comes from a longstanding dispute over fishing rights that has fallen on deaf ears. DBM